Cynically, one of Kosovo’s most notorious Albanian war criminals and Mafiosi, Hashim “The Snake” Thaci (darling of Madeleine Albright and Christiane Amanpour, whose Victory Hotel in Pristina is adorned with a Statue of Liberty) recently stated in Koha Ditore:

 “…organized crime and mafia which has penetrated to the highest ranks of the  government pyramid are the biggest dangers for Kosovo…but what will happen  after the status? Who will stop the criminal gangs that have been installed by this  weak government?”

	In Kosovo, an intolerantly violent nationalism (the Albanian flag) has its complement in the Islamic jihadism as Albanian mosques are springing up across the province while Churches are being destroyed and looted.

The official response of US Government officials to questions about the role of jihadist and radical Islamist elements in the Kosovo Albanian independence movement is that it is an inconsequential phenomenon, and that most Albanians are secular nationalists. However, Western military intelligence officials have extensively documented the inroads made by jihadist/terrorist elements, and their presence throughout Kosovo, and links to global Islamist terror networks and narco-mafias is widely known. In many areas young Kosovo Albanians are being converted to the Wahabist faction, and are highly visible in their telltale short haircuts, beards, and ankle-length pants. As well, many Arabs are present from the Middle East and France, presumably leaders of jihadist cells. Moreover, anti-Western jihadist sermons are now a regular feature at many of the new mosques. Western military intelligence officials have stated that the findings of their investigations into the jihadist terror networks is routinely ignored or blocked by NATO, UN and US officials.

	Bali i Kombetar, the Albanian NAZI party insignia on Pristina wall, 2006. Bali i Kombetar was a volunteer Kosovo Albanian Nazi organization formed in 1939 and reported of by Himmler to Hitler as the most elite of Kosovo Albanian Nazis that have killed and expelled thousands of Serbs and Jews in WWII. Today, this Albanian Nazi organization is freely flourishing under the protection of NATO troops.

In one incident, Albanians allegedly dressed in NATO/KFOR uniforms approached a group of 14 Kosovo Serb farmers in Staro Gradsko, slaughtered them, and were rumored to have mutilated some. British NATO forces botched the entire forensics investigation and no one has been caught. Since 1999, over 1000 ethnic Serbs have been kidnapped and murdered, with few of the bodies recovered. Few ethnic Albanians have been arrested or tried for these murders, or for the destruction of over 130 historic Serbian churches, the countless monuments and graveyards vandalized, or the ethnic cleansing of 230,000 Serbs and other minorities. Even where rare personal relationships exist between Serbs and Albanians, due to the nature of Albanian’s intrinsic nationalist aspirations and closed society, an Albanian won’t betray another (say, to recover mortal remains of a Serb), even to help a “friend.”

	Gracanica Monastery seen through barbed wire.

When the “international community” has voiced any consternation at Albanian savagery, it has been at the inconvenience it causes to American policy designs for the region. Holbrooke, returning to Kosovo in 2005 as a $250,000 paid advisor of the Kosovo Albanian regime, suggested that it would be easier to get independence “if [they’d] stop killing Serbs.” Given his anti-Serb penchant, and previous comments that “Serbs are murderous assholes,” one assumes he would lodge no protest if the “final solution of the Serbian Question” was resolved AFTER the status decision.

	Kosovo Serb refugees at Obilic container camp, live in containers donated by Russia. They were ethnic cleansed by Albanians. Hot in summer and freezing in winter, the people have little assistance. Some are handicapped, and other are aged. Since 1999, over 200,000 Kosovo Serbs have been ethnic cleansed by Albanians, over 1000 murdered. Many have had their land, livestock, houses and posessions violently expropriated from them by Albanians, with no protection of justice offered by NATO, the EU or UN who occupy the Serbian province. Meanwhile, UNICEF has spent billions of dollars renovating mosques in the province.

The map Hitler created of a Greater Albania based on the League of Prizren is espoused by current Albanian nationalists, and openly backed by some in Washington, Brussels, and the Bilderberg Group. And Hitler’s legacy continues today. Bill Dorich writes:

 “Albanians exposed their Nazi ideas during the Holocaust when they joined Hitler in liquidating over one million Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 80,000  Roma. That should preclude Albanians from stealing Serbian or any territory 60 years later. Kosovo’s autonomy was a dictator’s decision and Tito did this  without a single vote of the people of Yugoslavia or its communist government. Demanding that the Serbs now abide by rules of law is absurd… during the  “autonomy” (1974-89) the Albanians banned the Cyrillic alphabet of their  minority Serb population—an alphabet and language used by the Serbs since the 800s. Serbs were fired from their jobs in Kosovo and a reign of persecution  followed.  Every policeman, judge, teacher, doctor, and government official was  an Albanian. These Albanian authorities removed Serbian books on history,  religion and music from Kosovo schools and libraries and burned over 2 million  volumes. During this period they also destroyed a Serbian monastery, raped  Serbian nuns and Serbian girls and burned hundreds of Serbian barns to  encourage Serbs to leave…more than 125,000 Serbs fled Kosovo from 1974 to  1989.”

Even during the times of Tito’s multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, Kosovo Albanians were known for their brutal campaigns against ethnic Serbs. As Balkan authority David Binder noted in the New York Times throughout the 1980’s:

 Nov. 28, 1982
 “In violence growing out of the Pristina University riots of March 1981, a score  of people have been killed and hundreds injured. There have been almost weekly  incidents of rape, arson, pillage and industrial sabotage, most seemingly  designated to drive Kosovo’s remaining indigenous Slavs – Serbs and  Montenegrins -- out of the province.”

 Nov. 9, 1982
 “Such incidents have prompted many of Kosovo’s Slavic inhabitants to flee the  province, thereby helping fulfill a nationalist demand for an ethnically ‘pure’  Albanian Kosovo. The latest Belgrade estimate is that 20,000 Serbs and  Montenegrins have left Kosovo for good since the 1981 riots.”

 Nov. 1, 1987
 “Ethnic Albanians in the government have manipulated public funds and  regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs…Slavic Orthodox churches have  been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned, and  crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians  have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls…As Slavs flee the protracted  violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic Albanian nationalists have demanded  for years…an ethnically ‘pure’ Albanian region, a ‘Republic of Kosovo’ in all but  name.”

The predatory, aggressive and expansionist behavior prevalent in the 1980’s continues today. Serbs watch from their houses as Albanians usurp their fields and livestock. Many rural Serbs live in abject poverty, unable to continue farming or herding to feed their families for fear of attack or murder. When Serbs try to farm, herd or fetch firewood on their land, they are often shot at or threatened.

Those Serbs that remain in predominantly Albanian areas fare the worst, under constant pressure to either sell their property at rock-bottom prices, or abandon their homes and farms outright. One woman whose 23 year old husband was shot dead by Albanians was warned: “What are you waiting for? We already killed your husband. Do we have to kill you and your three children too? Go!”

	Kosovo Serb Djordjevic family in October 2006. Kosovo Christian children like these are growing up in poverty and are precluded from schooling because Muslim Albanians will kill them if they ever venture out of their enclave.

 “…The KLA was responsible for serious abuses in 1998, including  abductions and murders of Serbs and ethnic Albanians considered collaborators [sic: loyal to] the state. In some villages under KLA control in 1998, the rebels drove ethnic Serbs from their homes. Some of those who remained are unaccounted for and are presumed to have been abducted by the KLA and killed…The KLA detained an estimated 85 Serbs during its July 19, 1998 attack on Orahovac. Thirty five of  these people were subsequently released, but the others remain  missing as of August 2001. On July 22, 1998, the KLA briefly took control of the Belacevac mine near Obilic. Nine Serbs were captured that day and they remain on the ICRC’s list of the missing. In September 1998, the Serbian police collected the 34 bodies of people believed to have been seized and murdered by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, at Lake Rodanjic, near Glodjane. Prior to that the most serious KLA abuse was the reported killing of 22 Serbian civilians in the village of Klecka…The  KLA…engaged in military tactics which put civilians at risk. KLA units  sometimes staged an ambush or attacked police and army outposts from a   village, and then retreated, exposing villagers to revenge attacks…  Most seriously, as many as 1000 Serbs and Roma [gypsies] have been  murdered or have gone missing since June 12, 1999… elements of the KLA  are clearly responsible for many…of these crimes…There is also a clear political  goal in many of these attacks: the removal from Kosovo of non-ethnic Albanians  in order to better justify an independent state.”

While the international community [sic: Washington] screamed at Belgrade for alleged discrimination of ethnic Albanians during the 90’s (while they converted Kosovo into an ethno-centric parallel state), it has been noticeably silent in demanding Albanian compliance with modern human rights standards of ethnic tolerance. The northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica is particularly instructive. There, the town is divided by the Ibar River into a multi-ethnic North, and a “pure” – cleansed – Albanian South. In the predominantly Serb North, 4000 ethnic Albanians, plus Roma, Bosnian Muslims, and Croats live side by side with Serbs in relative normalcy – as they had during the times of Tito’s Yugoslavia. But the South of Mitrovica has been totally cleansed of its non-Albanian inhabitants, violently so, and is a focal point for Islamist/jihadist organizing in the region. Moreover, Serbs in the North suffer insecurity due to provocations and raids by Albanians who cross over from the South to bomb, knife and shoot Serbs with impunity. Recently, a 16 year old Albanian youth crossed over from the South and threw a hand grenade in a multi-ethnic café, wounding several people. He was arrested, but soon liberated. And while UN and NATO troops stage frequent raids of Serb houses to confiscate the last vestiges of arms for self-defense, few such operations are undertaken against the heavily armed Albanians.

Clearly, as NATO, UN forces and Albanians create “facts on the ground,” Holbrooke’s stated policy is coming to fruition.